Word: anestheticized
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At Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, the operating room hummed with the efficient bustle of surgeons and nurses. On the table, her face covered by the anesthetic mask, Mrs. Raffelinia Manfra, 30, lay unconscious under .cyclopropane gas. She had just given birth by Caesarean section to a 5 Ib. 10 oz...
It was the second fatal explosion in three months in a U.S. hospital (TIME, Feb. 18). As before, no one knew immediately just what touched off the gas, though static electricity at some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough...
Dr. Fowler quickly examined his patient. Part of the hot blast had traveled along the anesthesia tube: bright red blood from broken vessels in the lungs was filling Patient Cummings' windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than...
The next question was what damage, if any, had been done to her brain. Nurse Timke had been scheduled for a minor operation on her nose, to relieve sinusitis, when she passed out cold because she was supersensitive to a local anesthetic (butacaine). It had taken 4½ minutes to...
But for all this he was a fine seaman and a cool and capable officer. Some of his crew could remember how he had reacted four years ago when one of his "black gang" was found on the deck spouting blood from knife wounds in the throat and arms. There...